- Orange training requires the Port Authority to inform the neighbors of the two options for the bypass of the railway, to the local government the call of the Air Quality Bureau and to include the green belt in the 2019 budget, and the Community detailed answers to know how it will update and expand the atmospheric prevention network
Cartagena, Sunday December 30 -.
Citizens in Cartagena today went to the neighborhood meeting 'Alumbres es que ard' organized by the residents of this town that has already completed five editions and has had a strong claiming character this year.
Among other activities, it has had a concentration to demand from public administrations the deviation of the freight train line that divides the population, the updating of the air measuring stations, or a green belt in the area.
The spokesman of Cs Cartagena, Manuel Padín, recalled that a few months ago "these neighbors referred to the regional government of the PP and PSOE state, a decalogue with its main complaints and none of these public administrations has deigned to respond or meet with a population of more than 3,000 inhabitants ".
As for the measuring stations, Manuel Padín has asked the Government of Cartagena to put pressure on the Community and convene the Air Quality Board as soon as possible with the presence of the General Director of the Environment, Antonio Luengo, to explain "how it will invest exactly that million euros that it announced a few weeks ago and that is foreseen in the regional budget, and that it detail the works that are going to be carried out in 2019 for the update and expansion of the atmospheric monitoring and prevention network ".
On a railway line that daily transfers dangerous merchandise and divides the town, Manuel Padín has asked the Port Authority to present once and for all the neighbors and the political groups of the City Council the two options of bypass that he has already studied, "and to clarify if it will bear the costs of the work, they have been dizzy for the past few months, ensuring that its Board of Directors does not rule it out and then the port president affirms that the work can not be paid by the Port, and shortly after that they are studying it; the residents of Alumbres deserve less contradictions, less uncertainty, and more seriousness ".
On the other hand, and in reference to the 'green belt' of Alumbres, the orange spokesman has charged against PP, PSOE and MC, "these parties have governed Cartagena during the last years, and none has responded to a historical demand to create this belt that had to separate the Valley of Escombreras from the houses ".
"At the last reforestation table the socialist exconcejal, Obdulia Gómez, informed that a master plan would be drafted to coordinate the replanting campaigns with a very clear schedule in terms of methods, calendars or plant species but since then we have not known anything in spite of of the questions that have been made in the Plenary, "said the mayor of Cs who has reported that without doubt" this will be other issues that will lead to upcoming plenary sessions and budget negotiations if the City remains silent " .
Finally, the orange spokesman recalled that his Group in the Regional Assembly has reserved 50,000 euros to update the protocols of the Emergency Plan Escombreras Valley, "is the direct response to one of the demands of the residents of Alumbres. of Cs is to increase the security of the neighbors and also of the workers of the industrial complex, "the last major breakdown in Repsol alerted us all of the need to correct the numerous deficiencies detected in the prevention, control and reaction systems of both oil complex as the whole industrial valley. "
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena